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As our school gravitates toward a more project based learning approach, my goal is to help my students develop basic presentations skills such as eye contact, audience engagement and having a dynamic delivery of their information rather than just standing by the board and reading to the crowd. By helping them acquire such skills, I am preparing them for a competitive job market where self expression and delivery of information is as important as team collaboration. Many of our lessons are student led now and require the students to create, develop or generate their own ideas based on the direction of the project. The latest example was to develop a new species of dinosaur using their knowledge of genetics and DNA, then market it to a group of investors by describing the steps to DNA replication, transcription and translation.

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As our school gravitates toward a more project based learning approach, my goal is to help my students develop basic presentations skills such as eye contact, audience engagement and having a dynamic delivery of their information rather than just standing by the board and reading to the crowd. By helping them acquire such skills, I am preparing them for a competitive job market where self expression and delivery of information is as important as team collaboration. Many of our lessons are student led now and require the students to create, develop or generate their own ideas based on the direction of the project. The latest example was to develop a new species of dinosaur using their knowledge of genetics and DNA, then market it to a group of investors by describing the steps to DNA replication, transcription and translation.

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